SilliamWhale
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Smoking doesn't cause cancer...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-said-smoking-doesnt-kill_us_58121434e4b064e1b4b0bf93
@SilliamWhale Will, you accuse Graeme Sait of benefiting financially from his claims. Fair enough, but if you follow the money in the debate, I think you'll find Monsanto and many other vested interests (including every farmer in the world running a no-till / min-till system) will be pumping all their propaganda and scientific research in the opposite direction. Same as happened in the tobacco industry not too long ago. Talk about vested interests!
In this post-truth / post-facts age, where you don't appear to even be able to trust the scientific community to tell us how it is, who can we really trust?
For myself, I wouldn't trust a multinational chemical juggernaut to do anything other than pursue profit at any cost.
Its not a case of trusting the multinational juggernaut or not. I am usually healthily sceptical when a promoter of something claims to know the problem and is able to supply the answer in one swoop - at a price of course which benefits them both ways. I'm very very sceptical of the nutrition industry fullstop anyway and I'm not sure how regulated the claims they make are for their own products - certainly not bound by any amount of obligations that pharmaceuticals are.
Are Monsanto hiding anything? - We know how litigious the USA is so if they are they would be in deep trouble but admittedly like VW they're too big to fail but I would expect something to come out. Would I want RR GM crops in the UK? No way but not because roundup is bad per se but because I want to protect a useful, cheap and relatively harmless chemical and use it less frequently for its own sake.
The problem with a lot of this sort of debate is that its saying "roundup is bad/it must be banned" and its just so simplistic. Its like when rabid Corbynista's argue if your not with us, then ergo you must be against us and you must therefore be a nazi apologist who hate poor people and that was why Grenfell tower burnt down, sort of....